In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by ipnon on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:14PM (#24052158)

Implicitly TV users are also prohibited from making their own technical decisions. I claim this is because the TV predates the era of open computing platforms like Unix.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:20PM (#24052236)

> I claim this is because the TV predates the era of open computing platforms like Unix.

I claim it's because DRM, since if it wasn't for DRM wanting control of the whole reception to display path to be protected, you could just stick an open computing device in between the streaming signal and the display device, and make your own technical choices.

You still can, AFAIK, for content that doesn't require HDCP.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by majormajor on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:29PM (#24052356)

I don't think it has anything to do with Unix or DRM or any of that.

It's because we have a trendy now-decades-long wave of product managers and designers who assume their job is to know better than the user.

Open source software is not immune.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by formerly_proven on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:34PM (#24053660)

TV and broadcasting in general has always been mostly controlled in a top-down manner by companies and governments, since before computers existed.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by jfrunyon on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:20PM (#24052906)

cough Ubuntu cough

cough systemd cough

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by grawprog on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:29PM (#24052353)

I remember having a TV tuner card back in the day on my old desktop and this is exactly what I did. I don't watch much TV or anything so.I haven't really checked, but are such cards available today with the encrypted digital cable that's ubiquitous everywhere? Even most broadcast is digital now and requires a decoder box between.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by jfrunyon on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:21PM (#24052918)

OTA: Yes.

Cable: no, you'd need a CableCard, and approved device (i.e. DVR), etc.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by anw on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:21PM (#24053534)

> the TV predates the era of open computing platforms like Unix.

Do you mean Unix-like? I'm not sure what you mean by "open" in this instance, but Unix definitely was not very open, leading to nascent platforms and movements such as GNU and Free/Libre software.

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